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Re: God help me - the Cricket thread

Reply #1875 –
The NSW Cricket Mafia has backed itself into a corner, it can't blame the bowlers this time because they are all in on the incumbents. The defenders of the top order would normally see it as a bowling fail not a batting fail, they would expect the batting did nothing wrong and the bowlers weren't able to knock over Bangladesh for a similar score!

Even in the post-match the usual suspects were talking about a refresh, then spent 10 minutes discussing the next generation of bowlers.

 The only batsmen they threw rocks at were Weatherald and Webster, declaring both fails, they wanted Inglis in and an extra bowler!
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: God help me - the Cricket thread

Reply #1876 –
Lyon looks finished
Webster is a bit of this and a bit of that
Cummins played (and lead) like a busted crab
Marnus still won't play shots
Smith looks close to cooked mentally


Starc and Head won the ashes....this is an old, poor side with a few blokes who are capable of first tier performances
DrE is no more... you ok with that harmonica man?

Re: God help me - the Cricket thread

Reply #1877 –
Quote from: Professer E – on
Starc and Head won the ashes....this is an old, poor side with a few blokes who are capable of first tier performances
They have golden moments, sometimes a few in a row, but there is little consistency from any of them.

We've been spoilt over the years, Lillee, Warne, Langer, Haydon, McGrath, you got 24x7 cricketers who always managed to compete. But a lot of their success came due to the reliability and consistency of partners in crime, we don't have it at the moment, we aren't relentless like we were.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: God help me - the Cricket thread

Reply #1878 –
As much as the batting failed the bowling group abjectly failed to build pressure.
Barely a maiden, with a few dotballs scattered throughout.
The Bangers cruised along at 3.5 an over.
They applied themselves on the opening day and 1st session in particular against a bunch of blokes who looked like they hadn’t played for 6 months, in conditions that suited the bangers, not us.
The pitch then turned into a road, game over.

I missed the weekends play as I went bush and was shattered to see that Jake missed out, he’ll play in Qld next up he’s going to need some luck…
The selectors want Head to drop down the order, they want 2 openers… but who wants the job, who can do the job, who’s in form ?

As an aside 3 fellas spent all day marooned on a sandbar yesterday after missing the tide… 🤣
Let’s go BIG !

Re: God help me - the Cricket thread

Reply #1879 –
Quote from: northernblue – on
As an aside 3 fellas spent all day marooned on a sandbar yesterday after missing the tide… 🤣

Any crocs for company NB?
"Negative waves are not helpful. Try saying something righteous and hopeful instead." Oddball

Re: God help me - the Cricket thread

Reply #1880 –
Quote from: northernblue – on
As much as the batting failed the bowling group abjectly failed to build pressure.
This has always been my assertion regarding the erratic performances, it's OK to crow about some player's best efforts as being a class above, but if the average output is ordinary it drags down everybody around them. This applies to both batting and bowling, probably fielding as well.

For example, the Australian Cricket mafia will use Green's latest innings as a excuse to persist, and Marnus just needs one good innings to secure another extension off the back of an isolated effort, ignoring repeat failures for the sake of one spectacular success here or there. That seems to be modern cricket, a flash in the pan T20 betters the 5 day grind.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"
 

Re: God help me - the Cricket thread

Reply #1881 –
Greens bowling, both volume and quality has unbalanced the side.  Webster's slot should be a specialist's bat or a bowling all-rounder.
DrE is no more... you ok with that harmonica man?

Re: God help me - the Cricket thread

Reply #1882 –
Quote from: Professer E – on
Greens bowling, both volume and quality has unbalanced the side.  Webster's slot should be a specialist's bat or a bowling all-rounder.
Green's a bowler, not just used to change ends? :o

For all the potential this kid offers, he's massively under delivered, in fact most of the squad fall in that category.

Don't accept the stats, if the greats of the past had as much opportunity to play cricket under the modern idealistic conditions they would have records twice the magnitude! None of these "moderns" compare in my opinion. The modern players find things to complain about in conditions that would have seen Viv Richards or Bob Simpson batting for 5 days!

Can you imagine facing Warne or Lillee around Tea time with a pink ball in a Day / Night test, most batsmen would come off looking like Mr Bean? Think of all those times Warne turned the last moments of light into a symphony of cricket!
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: God help me - the Cricket thread

Reply #1883 –
Quote from: northernblue – on
As much as the batting failed the bowling group abjectly failed to build pressure.
Barely a maiden, with a few dotballs scattered throughout.
The Bangers cruised along at 3.5 an over.
They applied themselves on the opening day and 1st session in particular against a bunch of blokes who looked like they hadn’t played for 6 months, in conditions that suited the bangers, not us.
The pitch then turned into a road, game over.

I missed the weekends play as I went bush and was shattered to see that Jake missed out, he’ll play in Qld next up he’s going to need some luck…
The selectors want Head to drop down the order, they want 2 openers… but who wants the job, who can do the job, who’s in form ?

As an aside 3 fellas spent all day marooned on a sandbar yesterday after missing the tide… 🤣

 Some guys went fishing out from shady camp a few years ago now, there boat hit a log and sunk.They managed to get to the bank and climb a little tree. A croc thought this looks a nice dinner and waited at the bottom of the tree for the tide. As the water got higher the croc got closer and closer, then along came another boat and saved the day.